Journal article
TRAIT AND BEHAVIORAL THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP: AN INTEGRATION AND META-ANALYTIC TEST OF THEIR RELATIVE VALIDITY
Personnel psychology, Vol.64(1), pp.7-52
03/01/2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2010.01201.x
Abstract
The leadership literature suffers from a lack of theoretical integration ( Avolio, 2007, American Psychologist, 62, 25-33). This article addresses that lack of integration by developing an integrative trait-behavioral model of leadership effectiveness and then examining the relative validity of leader traits (gender, intelligence, personality) and behaviors (transformational-transactional, initiating structure-consideration) across 4 leadership effectiveness criteria (leader effectiveness, group performance, follower job satisfaction, satisfaction with leader). Combined, leader traits and behaviors explain a minimum of 31% of the variance in leadership effectiveness criteria. Leader behaviors tend to explain more variance in leadership effectiveness than leader traits, but results indicate that an integrative model where leader behaviors mediate the relationship between leader traits and effectiveness is warranted.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- TRAIT AND BEHAVIORAL THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP: AN INTEGRATION AND META-ANALYTIC TEST OF THEIR RELATIVE VALIDITY
- Creators
- D. Scott DeRue - University of MichiganJennifer D. Nahrgang - Arizona State UniversityNed Wellman - University of MichiganStephen E. Humphrey - Pennsylvania State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Personnel psychology, Vol.64(1), pp.7-52
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2010.01201.x
- ISSN
- 0031-5826
- eISSN
- 1744-6570
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 46
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984403064302771
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